Big Problems Erupt in Angola – Chinese Citizens Flee as Anger Erupts Due to Belt and Road Consequences 1/2

August 20, 2025 | Sundance |

HatTip to Ben for calling attention to this remarkable story.

Essentially China’s “Belt and Road” initiative is a system ofChina putting massive infrastructure investment funds into a targeted country in exchange for their ability to extract resources needed for Chinese expansion. However,several nations are now rising up against the Chinese influenceas it surfaces in the lives of the citizens.

Angola is a case study in China investing billions and with the investment alarge number of Chinese citizens arrive set up businesses there. Over time resentment against the Chinese has been building. Then a flashpoint with amassive jump in gas prices. Suddenly, anarchy erupts, and all the Chinese businesses are looted, some even killed in the violence.

[READ STORY HERE]

China is now evacuating some of the 300,000+ Chinese citizens from the region, and the Chinese embassy is urgently warning people about the escalating crisis.

Remember when Tunis erupted at the origin of the “Arab Spring”? That was a combined economic and cultural flashpoint.This escalating problem in Africa has a similar theme to it.

People often talk about the ‘strength’ of China’s economic model; and indeed within a specific part of their economy -manufacturing- they do have economic strength.However, the underlying critical architecture of the Chinese economic model is structurally flawedand President Trump with his current economic team understand the weakness better than all international adversaries.

Lets take a stroll and lightly discuss.

China is a central planning economy.Meaning it never was an outcropping of natural economic conditions. China was/is controlled as a communist style central-planning government; As such, it is important to reference the basic structural reality that China’s economy was created from the top down.

This construct of government creation is a key big picture distinctionthat sets the backdrop to understand how weak the economy really is.

Any nations’economic model is only as stable (or strong) as the underlying architecture or infrastructure of the actual country.

Think about economic strength and stability this way: If a nation was economically walled off from all other nations, can it survive? …can it sustain itself?

In the big picture– economic strength is an outcome of the ability of a nation, any nation, to support itself first and foremost. If a nations’ economy is dependent on other nations’ for it to inherently survive it is less strong than a nation whose economy is more independent.

You might not realize it, butChina is an extremely dependent nation.

When the central planning for the 21st century Chinese Economy was constructed, there were several critical cultural flaws, dynamics exclusive to China, that needed to be overcome in order to build their economic model. It took China several decades to map out a way to economic growth that could overcome the inherent critical flaws.

Critical Flaws To Exploit:

♦Because of the oppressive nature of the Chinese compliant culture, the citizens within China do not innovate or create. The “Compliance Mindset” is part of the intellectual DNA strain of a Chinese citizen.

Broadly speaking, =the modern era Chinese are not able to think outside the box per se’ because the reference of all civil activity has been a history of box control by government, and compliance to stay (think) only within the approved box. The lack of intellectual thought mapping needed for innovation is why China relies on intellectual theft of innovation created by others.==

American culture specifically is based around freedom of thought and severe disdain of government telling us what to do;THAT freedom is necessary for innovation. That freedom actually creates innovation.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/08/20/big-problems-erupt-in-angola-chinese-citizens-flee-as-anger-erupts-due-to-belt-and-road-consequences/

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Again, broadly speaking Chinese are better students in American schools and universitiesbecause the Chinese are culturally compliant. They work well with academics and established formulas, and within established systems, but they cannot create the formula or system themselves.

♦ The Chinese Planning Authority skipped the economic cornerstone. When China planned out their economic entry, they did so from a top-down perspective. They immediately wanted to be manufacturers of stuff. They saw their worker population as a strategic advantage, but they never put the source origination infrastructure into place in order to supply their manufacturing needs. China has no infrastructure for raw material extraction or exploitation.

China relies on:importing raw material, applying their economic skillset (manufacturing), and then exporting finished goods. This is the basic economic structure of the Chinese economy.

See the flaw?

Cut off the raw material, and the China economy slows, contracts, and if nations react severely enough with export material boycotts the entire Chinese economy implodes.

Insert big flashy sign for: “One-Belt / One-Road” HERE

Again, we reference the earlier point: Economic strength is the ability of a nation to sustain itself. [Think about an economy during conflict or war] China cannot independently sustain itself, therefore China is necessarily vulnerable.

China is dependent on Imports (raw materials) AND Exports (finished goods).

♦The 800lb Panda in the room is that China is arguably the least balanced economy in the modern world. Hence, China has to take extraordinary measures to secure their supply chain. This economic dependency is also why China has recently spent so much on military expansion etc., they must protect their vulnerable interests.

Everything important to theChinese Economy surrounds their critical need to secure a strong global supply chain of raw material to import, and leveraged trade agreements for export.

China’s economy is deep (manufacturing), but China’s economy is also narrow.

China could have spent the time to create a broad-based economy, but the lack of early 1900’s foresight, in conjunction with their communist top-down totalitarian system and a massive population,led to central government decisions to subvert the bottom-up building-out and take short-cuts. Their population controls only worsened their long term ability to ever broaden their economic model.

It takes a population of young avg-skilled workers to do the hard work of building a raw material infrastructure. Mine workers, dredge builders, roads and railways, bridges and tunnels etc.All of these require young strong bodies. The Chinese cultural/population decisions amid the economic builders precluded this proactive outlook;now they have an aging population and are incapable of doing it.

This is why China has now positioned their economic system as dependent on them being an economic bully. They must retain their supply chain: import raw materials – export finished goods, at all costs.

This inherent economic structure is a weakness China must continually address through policies toward other nations.Hence, “One-Belt / One-Road” is essentially their ‘bully plan’ to ensure their supply chain and long-term economic viability.

This economic structure, and the reality of China as a dependent economic model,also puts China at risk from the effects of global economic contraction.

(https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/08/20/big-problems-erupt-in-angola-chinese-citizens-flee-as-anger-erupts-due-to-belt-and-road-consequences/

Study: Democrats Losing Registration Race in All 30 States that Track Party Affiliation — 4.5 Million-Voter Swing Toward GOP

Bradley Jaye20 Aug 2025

The Democrat Party is hemorrhaging support with no end in sight, according to a shocking analysis of new voter registrations.

Fueled by President Donald Trump’s gains among men, younger voters, and Latinos in 2024, more new voters nationwide chose to be Republicans than Democrats forthe first time since 2018, according to a report from the New York Times which relies on voter registration data compiled by L2, a nonpartisan data firm.

Perhaps more troubling for Democrats, the data suggests Democrat Party activists canno longer rely on the party’s tried-and-true methods to reverse the trend, leaving panicked party leaders and pundits unsure how to resurrect the party’s electoral prospects.

The numbers are staggering.

“Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party,Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and often by a lot,” the report reads.“That four-year swing toward the Republicans adds up to 4.5 million voters, a deep political hole thatcould take yearsfor Democrats to climb out from.”

No states – red, blue, or purple – are immune to the trend.

More voters are choosing to be Republicans.

“All told, Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters between the 2020 and 2024 elections in the 30 states, along with Washington, D.C., that allow people to register with a political party,” the report adds. “(In the remaining 20 states, voters do not register with a political party.) Republicans gained 2.4 million.”

Many blue states, like massive California, register voters by partywhile many red states, including Texas, do not, so the number of nationwide registered voters by party does not tell the full story. But in those 30 states with partisan voter registration,Democrats’ eleven-point edge over Republicanson Election Day 2020plummeted to just over six points in 2024, an alarming trend for Democrats.

“I don’t want to say, ‘The death cycle of the Democratic Party,’ but there seems to be no end to this,” Michael Pruser, director of data science for Decision Desk HQ, told the Times. “There is no silver lining or cavalry coming across the hill. This is month after month, year after year.”

More trends paint a similarly dire picture for Democrats.

By 2024, the Republican party’s share of new registered voters nationwide “had overtaken Democrats’,” rising by nine pointscompared to 2018, the report details, while Democrats’ fell by almost eight percent.

The shift from 2020 to 2024 was prevalent in the four swing states with partisan data available as well –North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada.

Identifying the problem is likely to be far easier than fixing it.

Due to the makeup of Trump’s new Republican Party coalition, achieved through gains across multiple demographics,Democrats are unable to go back to the well of recruitment of racial minorities to reverse their downward trajectory. The Times report reads:

For years,the left has relied on a sprawling network of nonprofits— which solicit donations from people whose identities they need not disclose — to register Black, Latino and younger voters. Though the groups are technically nonpartisan, the underlying assumption has been that most new voters registering would vote Democratic.

Mr. Trump upended that calculation with the inroads he made with working-class nonwhite voters.

While blind registration of young people and minorities – assumed to lean Democrat – through nonprofits is relatively easy and inexpensive, identifyingand targeting potential Democrat voters is incredibly more difficult and exponentially more expensive.

Donors to left-leaning nonprofits pursuing blanket registration of young and racial minorities get significant tax breaks, while those donors giving money to PACs and partisan political groups are not eligible for such write-offs.

Besides the additional fundraising hurdles faced by political groups compared with nonprofits, donors to those group see less return on their investment.The surgical workof searching, identifying, contacting, registering, and mobilizing voters by partisan political groupsis wildly expensive, with the amount of money to successfully secure one Democrat vote running into the hundreds of dollars.

Dumping money into the existing framework is not a solution for Democrats, but no easy – or difficult – fix is apparent.Compounding the party’s problems is the lack of a leader or message.

If Trump and his movement’s heirs continue expanding the MAGA coalition, Democrats’ problems will grow with it.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/20/democrat-party-upended-voter-registration-crisis-there-seems-no-end-this/

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(And the crackdown of cheating, by implementing in person ballots and banning voting machines under Trump, will make it much harder.)

Scarborough: Gavin Newsom Attempts to Troll Trump Are ‘Quite Embarrassing’

Pam Key20 Aug 2025

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough said Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) social media posts aimed at President Donald Trump were “quite embarrassing.”

Scarborough said, “You can see the Democrats are trying to find their footing and it’s quite embarrassing actually. I mean, Gavin Newsom I mean, have you seen what he’s doing online? And he’s like, just take a deep breath. Don’t don’t try to turn the ship 180 degrees. They don’t know what to do.”

He added, “I have a good idea. Instead of trying to make school Donald Trump talking to the camera about affordability. Talk about making groceries like, more, more affordable. Talk about what you’re going to do for housing. Talk about what you’re going to do for energy prices that continue to go up. We heard the congressman talk about energy prices skyrocketing in New Jersey yesterday. You know, don’t try, you know, as I’ve been saying, Donald Trump’s not on the ballot in 26. He’s not on the ballot in 28.Why try to drag Muhammad Ali into the ring when you get Chuck Wepner standing right in front of you?Wepner is a bleeder, he’s a bleeder, you want him. So why are you going after Donald? No, you are not running against Donald Trump. Go after Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/08/20/scarborough-gavin-newsom-attempts-to-troll-trump-are-quite-embarrassing/